Med-Surg Success: A Q&A Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking (Davis's Success)

This is a fantastic book and one that I would recommend for any nursing student concerned about doing well on the exit HESI. This book is designed to assist the student not only in preparing for Med/Surg exams, and the exit HESI (if your school utilizes it) but also preparing you exceptionally well for the NCLEX licensure test. The questions most closely resemble the HESI format and will definitely prepare you for that exam. The book is divided into 20 chapters, the final chapter contains the comprehensive final exam along with the correct answers and rationales. Each chapter contains keywords, abbreviations, and concepts at the beginning, followed by practice questions covering the specific topic, rationales and correct answers follow. Each chapter concludes with a comprehensive examination covering the content along with the correct answers and rationales. Test taking hints and strategies are found throughout each topic. Chapters 2 through 18 are further divided into disease processes to help you identify specific content and a test-taking hint is provided for every question in the content area. A CD is included with the book containing 265 questions that you can select and prioritize to design additional tests online, another more realistic way to practice for the NCLEX or HESI.Continuous practice coupled with reviewing textbook and lecture material contributed enormously to my confidence in test taking this semester, enabling me to complete the semester with As and Bs for Med/Surg. I will continue to utilize this book as I prepare for next semester's exit HESI and the NCLEX.

I can't rave enough about these Davis Success Series books. They're just a big book FULL of questions that a) help you for nursing tests during school and b) prep you for the NCLEX. No fluff. This book is separated into body systems, and then further into the major disease processes and topics. Questions, rationales (for the right AND wrong choices), and tips for each question. And then there's a comprehensive test after everything. It's well worth the money. And another thing about the rationales: they're detailed and they explain why the answer is right or wrong. These books help you get into thinking NCLEX-wise and really help. Would recommend it for MedSurg I and MedSurg II students alike.

This book does a good job of providing everything a new nurse needs to know and understand about med-surg nursing. There are great summaries in each chapter, with quizzes, and excellent tables to help synthesize a lot of information. However, I really like the interactive question and answers that helped me estimate my understanding of the material and prepare for the NCLEX. The companion takes just a few minutes to set up and is even quicker if you already have an account with the company because then you just log in and put in the code you receive. You can access the material anytime and there is no expiration date. Great resource for years to come.

Nursing students: I bought this as a study aid to help study with med surg content and while it doesn't completely coincide with my classroom material, it was still a very good supplemental book. Now while on summer break I am using the computer program to do some questions everyday. The book has very helpful outlined reviews of concepts followed by the questions and the FULL rationale for the questions is provided at the end. I like the way its organized, its very easy to walk yourself through. The questions are good and are at an appropriate level of difficulty. If you are using this in addition to your classroom material- you may run into the same problem I had. If I was on respiratory in class and decided to do some questions in the respiratory section of this book, some of the concepts presented in the book's questions were not always applicable to my classroom content so I would say I had to skip about 20% of the questions while studying for my college's exams. HOWEVER, this does not apply if you are using this book for NCLEX prep since everything is basically applicable for the NCLEX. Also, compared to other resources, skipping 20% of the questions really isnt that many. The reason I am only giving four stars is because I think the computer software is a little outdated and could be upgraded to a more modern layout. The software is very easy to install and use. Its easy to navigate through the questions, and you can even see the rationale for the questions if you take tests in "study mode". But it looks like it was developed at least 10 years ago, so for that reason I will give 4 stars.

Getting through nursing school has definitely been a challenge, but taking Med-surge was probably the pinnacle of my stress. Having worried about my first exam score I looked for any resources I could find to help me pass the class and that's when I came across this book. The book has every single topic you will cover in your class and has it in order. It offers you a plentiful amount of practice questions for each topic and gives you rationale for not only the right answer but also the wrong answer. It also gives great test taking strategies which I found very helpful. After using this book to study for my next exam I was so happy to see that I got a 94%! That being said, I really recommend this book to anyone who is currently taking Med-surge, or preparing for the NCLEX-RN.

Last semester, I used Fundamental Success, which helped tremendously. I went from "C" to "A". Therefore, I decided to buy this other one. Given that the nursing program is very intense, it can be very difficult to read through all the materials. "Med -Surg Success" covers the entire chapters in the form of NClex questions. It is better than the text bank. The author of the book gives a rationale for every question, even the wrong ones. At the end of every chapter, there is an exam style questionnaire! I noticed that if you can answer the majority of those questions correctly, it will not only give you a better understanding of the topic, but YOU WILL PASS THE TEST in your class. I realized that there are always quite a few questions (or similar) from this book that comes to the exam. Honestly, if you can only afford one extra book from your text book, this will be the one to take. I hope that it will be helpful to others as it is for me.

This book is probably the best review, test prep, and lecture prep. It breaks down each individual subject matter like there is a chapter on Myasthenia gravis, MS, parkinsons, head injury, spinal cord injury. It isnt like a normal book that heres a section on neuro or endocrine with a bunch of disorders into one section. This book actually has different disorders and sections broken down and review questions for each section/disorder. I even recommended this book to a classmate and she found it helpful. Its not only great for classroom, but will be for NCLEX prep as well. This book is a must buy!, my instructors use it as well.

Nursing exams are no joke, and one of the best things you can do for yourself in preparation is crash through as many NCLEX-style practice questions as possible. I found no better resource than the "Success" series. The Med Surge book is very easy to navigate by body system and condition, and does a fantastic job of honing in on the essential concepts you need to know as an RN related to interventions, complications, and patient teaching. Most importantly, the rationales behind why certain answers are either incorrect or correct will prepare you for any kind of nursing school exam trickery that may come your way!

Best boom for studying for med surg class as well as national exam

Super Helpful for Med Surg

Book was as described. Delivery was quick as well. The original cost of book CA $57 was somewhat high but certainly in line with cost at a bookstore.

Reasonably priced testable question booklet. Gives rationale and helps a lot if you have the med-surg text!

I passed med surg!